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Joe Haldeman · 1997 · US · science fiction
★ 3.75 Goodreads · 23,237 ratings

In 2043, Julian Class, a physics professor, spends ten days a month linked mind to mind with his platoon, operating remote combat machines in an endless war in Central America.

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The Light Brigade

Kameron Hurley · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 11,802 ratings
shares: anti war, soldier, scifi · cold, speculative

Dietz joins the corporate army after the Blink wipes São Paulo off the map, and soldiers are broken down into light to be beamed to the front, and Dietz starts arriving at the wrong times.

Man Plus

Frederik Pohl · 1976 · US 94% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 8,949 ratings
shares: scifi, technological, near future · speculative, plain prose

As the Cold War edges towards nuclear war, NASA turns Roger Torraway, an astronaut, into a cyborg built to live unprotected on the surface of Mars.

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman · 1975 · US 94% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 185,909 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Forever War
shares: anti war, war, hugo award · speculative, plain prose

A soldier fights an interstellar war where time dilation means each tour of duty returns him to an Earth centuries older and utterly alien.

Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos · 2013 · US 94% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 34,252 ratings
shares: soldier, scifi, war · earnest, plain prose

Andrew Grayson escapes the welfare tenements of a crowded future North America the only way he can, by enlisting, and is sent to fight rioters at home and something far worse in space.

Halo: The Fall of Reach

Eric Nylund · 2001 · US 94% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 15,991 ratings
shares: strategic, soldier, scifi · plain prose, cold

John-117, taken from his family as a child for the secret SPARTAN-II programme, grows up into the supersoldier who will fight humanity's war against the alien Covenant.

Planetside

Michael Mammay · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 5,214 ratings
shares: soldier, scifi, war · cold, plain prose

Colonel Carl Butler, called out of retirement, is sent to a war-torn planet to find out what happened to a powerful officer's missing son.

Hammer's Slammers

David Drake · 1979 · US 94% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 6,338 ratings
shares: strategic, soldier, scifi · cold, speculative

Linked stories of Colonel Alois Hammer's mercenary armoured regiment, fighting other people's wars on colony planets.

The Terminal Experiment

Robert J. Sawyer · 1995 · Canada 93% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 4,596 ratings
shares: scifi, technological, nebula award · plain prose, cold

Peter Hobson, a Toronto biomedical engineer who has detected the soul leaving the body at death, makes three digital copies of his own mind, and one of them starts killing people.

Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 1951 · US 93% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 618,039 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in Foundation
shares: plain prose, speculative

As the Galactic Empire decays, mathematician Hari Seldon plants a colony of scholars on a remote planet to shorten the coming dark age, and his successors survive crisis after crisis his equations foresaw.

Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge · 2006 · US 93% match ★ 3.77 Goodreads · 19,243 ratings
shares: scifi, technological, near future · plain prose, earnest

Robert Gu, a famous poet lost to dementia, is cured in 2025 and has to go back to high school to learn a world of wearable computers and overlaid realities, and is drawn into a conspiracy.

Downbelow Station

C. J. Cherryh · 1981 · US 93% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 16,812 ratings
shares: strategic, war, hugo award · speculative, plain prose

As the Company Wars end, Pell Station, orbiting a world inhabited by gentle natives, is swamped with refugees and caught between the Earth Company's fleet and the rising Union.

Darwin's Radio

Greg Bear · 1999 · US 93% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 17,027 ratings
shares: scifi, near future, nebula award · plain prose, cold

A mass grave in Georgia, a frozen Neanderthal family in the Alps and a new virus that causes miscarriages all point to the next step in human evolution.